Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper but in building more robust

but in building more robust ruminations sonically

gender-fluid vocals and searing poetry to take centre stage

especially on the driving title track

“It was like I was moving forward and venturing into places I had never been before

“I don’t really care for songs that flow just right or have a perfect cadence—I’d rather there be some sort of unnerving element to them

Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper but in building more robustA revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the bands already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call and response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard